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Blog post #612/22/2023 During my last post, I talked about the obstacles potentially prohibiting me from reaching my beginning goal and how I was gonna combat them. During this week I spent a lot of time searching online for things to do to not only prevent the knee pain but to fix it if or when it starts. I already had a plan in mind of doing more isometric exercises because not only do you not have to have weights, but you can do them almost anywhere, and get this they are in most explosive training routines. I think that the reason they are in a lot of those is because they help strengthen joints and tendons leading to a stronger more stable base to explode off of. Isometrics are static workouts that have the m muscles contract without a change in length or visible joint movements. I’ve done isometrics before but not to prevent knee pain. I wanted to focus on two specific exercises. The first is holding quad extensions for 3 sets of 30 seconds, but the problem with this is this exercise requires weight. So during my busy basketball schedule, the only time I could do this would be on the weekends. The next exercise is way more accessible. 3 sets of 30 seconds holding an ATG split squat. ATG stands for butt to grass and is one of the best ways to open up mobility. What I’ve realized as I’ve gone through the past couple of blogs is that I haven’t done a good job of talking about the progress I’ve made using the different methods. Partly because I wanted to save it up for the big presentation and partly because I felt like the blog posts needed to center more around what I was going to do and then the presentation for how it went. Last week I talked about mobility and plyometrics as the other two ways I was going to keep up my progress. Well, every night before I go to sleep I do an entire mobility routine. In essence, I do yoga. While it may only be a 15-minute youtube video after a couple days of doing it my body feels really good. It’s too early to tell if it makes you jump higher or run faster but for one thing I don’t feel half as stiff as I used to.
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